Turkey qualified as the best 3rd place team.

My bad, wasn't sure about that.

Wow the Dutch looked like they couldn't kick shite off a rope, the Czechs could have sent 11 men from the local pub the give that mob a thrashing.

"We blijven realistisch, maar toch ook wat chauvinistisch: wij zijn de nummer 1 van de wereld en Nederland ligt eruit!"

Not really. Even in the Premier League, Depay has struggled a lot recently! Against Arsenal he was anonymous.

Where is kirby so we can all laugh at him?

Someone, find him quickly.

that is what some dutch journo said on the bbc radio when they were asking what happened to you,that they are missing an inbetween gen,you'd still think the much praised dutch system would have good enough players for a play off place though

have belgium stolen your players?

they also said that koeman was the man most wanted and they chose hiddink was it?,can't quite remember now

Ka-pi96 said: And as of last season Man City are profitable and completely debt free. Not many clubs can say that! Things are looking good for us http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/10028558/debt-free-manchester-city-post-near-16311m-profit-for-20142015

what is so impressive about this

they are backed by an arab royal family with limitless funds who have pumped over a billion pounds into he club which city don't have to pay back

same with chelsea over 1 billion pounds which chelsea don't have to pay back

how can they not be in debt

Ka-pi96 said: zuvuyeay said: Ka-pi96 said: And as of last season Man City are profitable and completely debt free. Not many clubs can say that! Things are looking good for us http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/10028558/debt-free-manchester-city-post-near-16311m-profit-for-20142015 what is so impressive about this they are backed by an arab royal family with limitless funds who have pumped over a billion pounds into he club which city don't have to pay back same with chelsea over 1 billion pounds which chelsea don't have to pay back how can they not be in debt Other clubs have had owners pump plenty of money in to them as well. Not all of them were debt free though and it certainly doesn't guarantee profitability. Look at Portsmouth for example...

don't think portsmouth were bought the same kind of players as city or got a 300m sponsorship deal for nothing

don't get me wrong i like city and am glad for their fans to be on top for a change but it is because of a countries family oil welath pumping in unanswered money for years (like chelsea) and not some kind of prudent finacial master plan

Well we kinda should have 2 great teams in the of age 25 to 29.. they were european champions under 21 in 2006 and 2007.. with 22 different players.. but only Huntelaar and maybe Vlaar became above average senior players and the rest just failed and playing in (below)average teams now.. Babel, Drenthe, Emanuelson, Maduro, Affelay and a dozen of others kinda all failed choosing the right path for their careers.

So we have a huuuge gap with the generation with an aging Van Persie, Robben, Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Huntelaar and the newest age 18 to 24 with Clasie, Wijnaldum, Depay, Klaassen, El Ghazi.. talented but not stable enough.. The worldclass talent of Robben in 2014 and worldclass talent of Sneijder in 2010 has covered a lot of the problem but with the age and injuries they couldn't do it again for us.

Koeman was the chosen one in the eye of the public but the higher ups not impressed with the pressure chose Hiddink.. I actually don't think Koeman would have done better with the missing players in the age of 25 to 29..